John Oliver: how to resist the normalization of Trump

I can understand first hearing of something on FB or Twitter, and then going to legit sources to look it up; but I cannot fathom just stopping at FB and thinking the info there is somehow “factual.”

Dear Dumbeldore help us, the Dumbening is real, and it’s endangering us all.

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Thank you

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Not really doing either – just injecting some flippant humor into the conversation.

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Or fail it, if you’re in my class! :wink:

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Is there an easy/straightforward way to set up regular donations to ALL of the charities and groups he mentioned? (I’ll do it one-at-a-time if not, but just wanted to ask.)

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is there a proper mirror to this anywhere?

Band Name!

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“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!”

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Yeah, I really wish it didn’t seem like Carlin was right about that bit, but

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What I (and probably others) need is the following:

  • Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Orkut friend posts something awful (racist, sexist, factually incorrect, etc.)
  • I click a button of some sort, and perhaps I classify the post.
  • Based on my classification, a donation is made in the name of the friend in an amount of my choosing.
  • A reply is made to my friend’s post, something like this:

Thank you for sharing your truth. Your words have inspired me to donate to {$Amount} to {$Charity} on your behalf. Peace be with you.

This accomplishes several things:

  • I keep up with the current state of my social network.
  • Money is collected for deserving causes.
  • The amount of garbage in my social feed is reduced either through attrition, training, or both.
  • I get to be both a little snarky and a little productive.

The only problem I can think of is that I’ll need to set a cap for each month or I’ll likely bankrupt myself.

Anyone know of something like this?

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But will you? Or are these figurative barricades?

Sometimes what worked in the past works fine in the present as well

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Ours got cancer and died, which is a real surprise, we all thought he’d die of a crack overdose.

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Maybe Trump will be like Jesus, and die to save us all?

I use a proxy : https://proxyusa.org/index.php#.UmUrSyTlqHk

Don’t you see, the normalisation has already started, notice this piece uses the word Trump, not Drumpf, stick to your guns Jon, he’s a filthy German!

Have you seen his VP?

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Good point. Maybe we can hope for a Road To Damascus moment instead then :wink:

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